Team ignored critical issues of Medical Bill: Activists

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Education-centric issues were neither presented nor debated with Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda during their recent meeting.

The NMC Bill will bring it down to a maximum of 40%, providing a ‘legal sanction to make medical education and public health a global commodity.’

Bengaluru: Student leaders, social activists and groups of medical professionals have alleged that a contingent of medical practitioners and founding members of the Association of Healthcare Providers – India (AHPI) ignored their concerns on the proposed National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, dubbed ‘anti-people’ and ‘anti-poor’.

They pointed out that education-centric issues were neither presented nor debated with Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda during their recent meeting to discuss the bill.

Ravinandan B.B., state vice-president, All-India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO), alleged that the delegation failed to raise these issues as some of them are associated with known medical institutions. “The NMC Bill pro poses that institutions will have the autonomy to decide the fee for more than 60% of the total seats. This will be a ‘legalised loot’ of medical education. The National Licenciate Exam (NLE), which replaces the existing, rigorous screening test, will make it easier for foreign students to get seats by paying huge sums of money as fee, affecting the chances of Indian students to pursue higher education. But the delegation completely ignored it,” he said.

He said that the contingent only debated against the bridge course which enables AYUSH practitioners to prescribe allopathic treatment.

Rajashekhar V.N., Secretariat Member of Save Education Committee, alleged that the AYUSH rule will have serious consequences and could affect the survival of the poor. “Medical knowledge is based on practical experiences and regional exposure equally. How can a foreign medical student be given a licence to treat patients based on his/her performance in an online MCQ test,” he asked.

He said that while the Karnataka government has powers to decide the fee structure for about 85% of seats in private medical colleges, the NMC Bill will bring it down to a maximum of 40%, providing a ‘legal sanction to make medical education and public health a global commodity.’

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Medical Education Reform: Cure & Its Cost

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Medical professionals rang in the New Year debating the implications of the National Medical Commission Bill tabled in the Lok Sabha. That it has now been sent to the standing committee should hopefully put some concerns to rest considering the bill. Despite some of its good provisions, the bill was far from ideal and needed revision. Debate on medical medical education reform is not new. "This is a debate with a history," says a former health ministry official referring to nearly the decade spent on the issue by successive governments.

1-Year MED Bond For Reserved Students

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Rural service clause now extended to SC/ST doctors from private medical colleges

In a move to curb diminishing health care services in the rural areas of the state the director of medical education and research (DMER) has for the first time made it mandatory for doctors completing their MBBS education from private medical colleges of Maharashtra under reserved categories to serve a one-year-bond in rural areas.

The DMER circular to this effect mandates the implementation of this rule from assessment year 2018-2019 in all private medical colleges in the state. Officials say failure to abide by the rules the doctors will be liable to pay the fees along with interest back to the government.

At present, this rule is applicable to all students doing their MBBS from government colleges. The DMER had decided to introduce a similar bond for students of reserved category from private medical colleges and submitted the proposal to the state government which has been approved.

In a private medical college, 50 per cent seats are reserved for categories like SC, ST and so on. The government bears their expenses and now expects the doctors passing out from these seats to give back to the society by serving the one-year bond. The bond penalty at a government medical college is Rs 10 lakh for an MBBS student, Rs 50 lakh for post-graduates and Rs 2 crore for super-speciality doctors. If the same is applied for reserved category students they may be penalised to the tune of Rs 50 lakh.

“In the last two decades, we never bothered about making the bond mandatory to the students of reserved category, but in the last couple of years the scenario has changed. The reserved category students earlier voluntarily went to serve in the rural parts but they have now stopped doing it,” said Dr Pravin Shingare, state director of medical education and research. “Students these days do not opt for government college seats despite securing excellent marks so that they don’t have to serve the bond. The observation of this drastic change in the last couple of years has forced us to make the bond mandatory for them.”

There are 450 MBBS reserved category seats across the state in 16 private medical colleges. The government pays the expenses for the course for the education of these students. The government at present spends around Rs 40 lakh for the MBBS degree for a single medical student belonging to the reserved category.

Dr Suchitra Nagre, trustee and director of Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research, said, “We welcome the new move. The strong implementation of the rule in the system will definitely help in a long run. Super-speciality doctors don’t want to work in the rural parts and so MBBS doctors will definitely be a better option for the government in these areas.”

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Training the next generation of Nigerian researchers

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Northwestern University’s Center for Global Health concludes week-long workshop

Sally McFall (far left) gives a tour of the Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies. (Photo by Morgan Searles)

 

EVANSTON - Senior Nigerian faculty researchers from the University of Ibadan completed a week-long training at Northwestern University’s Center for Global Health on Dec. 12. The program is designed to enhance research capacity, focusing on key scientific areas that address priority health needs in Nigeria.

These areas include: laboratory and clinical investigation of HIV and its long-term complications; genomics of infectious diseases; and neurologic diseases with an emphasis on stroke and seizure disorders.

Future doctors and nurses learning to treat patients with food

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The click-clack of knives chopping on cutting boards and the savory smell of sauteed onions filled the air on a recent evening.

Eight students from the University of Minnesota training to be doctors, nurses and counselors raced around the classroom, donning aprons instead of lab coats. Their assignment: Prepare a delicious, healthful meal to treat patients' specific health problems.

"Smells like a steak," Theodore Wang said, as he sprinkled a pinch of salt over shiitake mushrooms simmering in olive oil.